Michelle M. Pillow

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Michelle M. Pillow
Born Belleville, Kansas, U.S.
Occupation Novelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Fort Hays State University
Genre Paranormal Romance, Fantasy Romance,
Years active2004–present
Notable worksSeries: Dragon Lord, Warlock MacGregor, Order of Magic
SpouseJohn Reyer Afamasaga (2016-present)
Website
michellepillow.com

Michelle M. Pillow is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist with over one million books sold. She is a prolific author, with works spanning across many genres, but is best known for writing romance novels. She is recognized by the Romance Writers of America for writing over one hundred books and is also a member of the Authors Guild. [1]

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Career

Michelle is a multi-published author writing in many romance fiction genres that include paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, historical, contemporary, and paranormal women's fiction. Books have been published by Random House, Virgin Books, Ebury, Rouge, Simon and Schuster (Pocket Books), Entangled Publishing, Adams Media, Ellora's Cave Publishing, Samhain Publishing, Running Press, Robinson Publishing, Paranormal Underground Magazine, The Raven Books, and others.

She has a Bachelor of General Studies in History/Business with an English Minor from Fort Hays State University and a Photography degree from the New York Institute of Photography. She was also a journalist and photographer for Paranormal Underground Magazine.

Her romance writing career began in 2004 with her first published book The Mists of Midnight and in 2006 she was awarded the Romantic Times Bookclub Magazine's Reviewer's Choice Award for the historical romance Maiden and the Monster. [2]

The anthology Taming The Alpha hit the New York Times [3] and USA Today [4] in 2014 and included her novel Stirring Up Trouble. In addition, she belonged to the Romance Writers of America, a non-profit organization that focuses on advocacy through increasing public awareness of the romance genre. The Virginia Romance Writers chapter established the HOLT Medallion in 1995 to recognize the achievements of published writers in romantic fiction. In 2015, Michelle received the Virginia Romance Writers HOLT Medallion Award of Merit for outstanding literary fiction for the book Love Potions. [5]

Michelle is also involved in various film and historical documentary projects with her filmmaker husband [6] and played a refugee extra in Z Nation [7] on SyFy that was released in 2016. [8] Dragon Prince received praise in 2019 on SyFy as part of a science fiction and fantasy romance recommendation list. [9]

In 2021, Michelle received a grant [10] from the Mississippi Arts Commission in support of her Order of Magic paranormal women's fiction series.

Fiction Series

Qurilixen World Series

The Qurilixen World is a collection of multiple interconnected paranormal, fantasy, and science fiction series including Dragon Lords, Lords of the Var, Space Lords, Captured by the Dragon-Shifter, Galaxy Alien Mail Order Brides, Dynasty Lords, and Qurilixen Lords.

Dragon Lords

  • The Barbarian Prince(2004) also appeared as: Variant:Barbarian Prince(2014) ISBN   978-1-62501-084-1
  • The Perfect Prince(2004) also appeared as: Variant:Perfect Prince(2014) ISBN   978-1-62501-085-8
  • The Dark Prince(2004) also appeared as: Variant:Dark Prince(2014) ISBN   978-1-62501-086-5
  • The Warrior Prince(2005) also appeared as: Variant:Warrior Prince(2014) ISBN   978-1-62501-087-2
  • His Highness the Duke(2012) ISBN   978-1-4524-1763-9
  • The Stubborn Lord(2013) ISBN   978-1-62501-010-0
  • The Reluctant Lord(2013) ISBN   978-1-62501-040-7
  • The Impatient Lord(2014) ISBN   978-1-62501-042-1
  • The Dragon's Queen(2014) ISBN   978-1-62501-082-7
  • Dragon Lords: Books 1-4(2014) ISBN   978-1-5022-5902-8
  • Dragon Lords: Books 5-8(2014) ISBN   978-1-5014-9751-3

Lords of the Var

Space Lords

Captured by a Dragon-Shifter

Galaxy Alien Mail Order Brides

Dynasty Lords

Qurilixen Lords

Warlocks MacGregor

Order of Magic

Happily Everlasting

(Un)Lucky Valley

Lords of the Abyss

Realm Immortal

Divinity Warriors

Divinity Healers

Call of the Lycan

Naughty Cupid

Tribes of the Vampire

Novels (Single Titles)

Novellas & Short Fiction

Anthologies

Non-fiction

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